101.   Although her family tried to raise the ransom money, the Plum Blossom Boys chopped off her little finger and stored it in a cigarette case.

102.   An interior ministry official said the ransom money was recovered on board the helicopter.

103.   But police succeeded in freeing Tamara without the ransom money being paid.

104.   The ransom money and the helicopter were provided just before the troops stormed the bus and freed the hostages, ORT television reported.

105.   The ransom money was found buried in the garden of a house in Wiesbaden after a massive search and vigorous appeals to the public for clues, police said.

106.   The ransom money was Wednesday found in a domestic garden in Wiesbaden.

107.   The three gunmen were later arrested and the ransom money recovered, the agency said.

108.   Two men were arrested Friday at a meeting fixed to hand over the ransom money.

109.   Three of the kidnappers were killed in the firefight, while four others were nabbed while about to receive the ransom money at a nearby restaurant, police said.

110.   Livelihood assistance in previous kidnapping incidents was often another term for ransom money.